Saturday, 22 February 2014

Today I am too tired, too
jaded and too resigned to the fate of this country to be any more
eloquent than this. So let me begin my thoughts... Fuck
mainstream Australia. Fuck silencing our right to protest. Fuck Biggest
Loser and My Kitchen Rules. Fuck bigotry. Fuck excess and abuse. Fuck
intolerance. Fuck horse racing. Fuck the Olympics. Fuck Manus island and
it's cycle of inhumanity and violence.
Fuck complacency. Fuck people who talk about being Australian like it's
some god given right to be an arsehole. Fuck people who watch commercial
news. Fuck an ineffectual and impotent opposition. Fuck 800 million
dollars in tax payments (payoff? bribe?) to Newscorp. Fuck the bored and
ignorant population that don't even care about the erosion of our
rights or the destruction of our country. Fuck dredging. Fuck marriage
for cisgender only and the institutions that claim ownership over love.
Fuck American television. Fuck swearing. Fuck palm oil profits over
animals lives. Fuck Abbott into a cocked hat. Fuck threats to the
institutions that make us great: Medicare, the ABC, freedom of
information and the right to associate with whoever we wish. There's so
much more but I'm running out of breath. Fuck talking about it. Fuck me
for not doing anything. Apologies to the English language x Brooke

What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. Shot at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York by award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg, and produced by his Berlin based artist collective Mindpirates, What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music delves deeply into the many challenges, stages of development and triumphs that musicians experience. Featuring the likes of Brian Eno, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Skream, Richie Hawtin and James Murphy, it seeks to go beyond just music, and ask questions about life itself. (FREE DOWNLOAD)

"...Ironically, according to Radio National, Iran is now officially
complaining that it was one of their citizens that was killed in the
Australian-run Manus Island detention centre. Tanya Plibersek thought
that was a ‘bit rich’ considering that Iran is well known for trampling
the human rights of their own people.Plibersek’s argument is a little bit like saying ‘Oh come on,
he was going to die anyway, who cares where? I know Australia locked
him up and then someone killed him, but at least he didn’t drown at
sea’.Surely no-one could still be buying the whole ‘we just don’t want to
see people drown’ bullshit. If you care that much about them, why lump
them in facilities where they get stoned to death and shot at?None of this has anything to do with saving lives and everything to
do with punishing innocent people because a small but apparently
valuable percentage of the Australian public get off on it. That both
major parties court the votes of those people makes my skin crawl.The ALP has to change. It can earn itself some credibility by taking a
stance, even if that means the short term pain of owning up to past
mistakes and dodgy dealings. That would not only be the right thing to
do, it is increasingly the only thing they can do if they have any hope
of ever earning the respect of the country again."

“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale’s passing. He not only was integral in DEVO’s sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson’s films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.“Mark Mothersbaugh

447 High St Northcote and St. Ali's Garage Yarra Pl, South Melbourne
Split in Two is based on two sides of a little girl’s character, she can be playful and messy or gentle and earthy, and sometimes they collide.
Be Free’s first solo exhibition is one show split in two venues. Exploring the two side of the character’s personality the exhibition combines print making, stencils and installations.
The show opens on the 28th of Feb as a 3 day pop up finishing on the 2nd of March